Programme / Speakers

Main programme timings:

Day 1 – Thursday 9 October – 10:00 – 17:00 hrs

Day 2 – Friday 10 October – 09:15 – 15:30 hrs

Confirmed programme topics

Session 1 – Welcome and opening keynote

Session 2A - Shaping the Future: Prevention at the Heart of Cardiovascular Health

Session 2B - Beyond the Scales: Holistic Approaches to Obesity and Weight Management in Cardiac Rehab

Session 3 - Bridging the Gap: Data, Policy and Practice for Reducing Inequalities in Cardiac Care

• Public health
• Do the newly emerging modes of cardiac rehabilitation delivery offer a solution to inequalities in access and outcome for patients?
• Scottish Cardiac Rehabilitation Audit
• Lived Experience  

Session 4 – Navigating Comorbidities in Cardiovascular Health

• Cardio-oncology
• Frailty
• Cardio-renal-metabolic disease

Session 5A - Improving Outcomes: Optimising Lipids and Heart Failure in Practice

• Lipid management for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease
• Heart Failure

Session 5 B - Spotlight on the Psychosocial Component of Cardiovascular Rehabilitation

• Psychosocial competences
• BHF funded Congenital Heart Disease Pilot
• Psychological Support for ICD recipients: Insights from a pilot service
• Outcomes and learning from a multi-site community cardiac rehabilitation  psychology project

Session 6 – Digital Directions: Navigating Innovation, Access and Equity in CV Health

• Digital Technology in Heart Failure Pathways
• Digital health and AI
• Navigating the Digital Health Landscape:  Lessons, Challenges and Opportunities

Session 7 - Sex, Gender and the Heart: Addressing Risk & Representation in Cardiovascular Health

• Women and CVD
• CVD risk in transgender people
• Sexual Rehabilitation - "the ticking time bomb of ED"

Oral abstract sessions

Poster sessions